10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2019

A wonderful variety of bird species are waiting to be seen and among them are many a birder’s favorite avian group, the wood-warblers. Participate in the Rainforest Biodiversity Group’s annual bird-a-thon. With birds bedecked in their breeding best and filling the air with song, this is migration at its loveliest.

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Costa Rica Species Belize New Jersey 191

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Their common names reflect their size, appearance, residence, and sometimes their sound, ranging from the simple to the eponymous: Little Owl, Powerful Owl, Pharaoh Eagle-Owl, Cloud-Forest Pygmy-Owl, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Morepork, Christmas Island Boobook, Blakiston’s Fish-Owl. In some ways, this is a puzzling chapter.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 224

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

However, Meleagris gallopavo has a lot more going for it than tasty, tryptophan-laced flesh: Turkeys are social birds and in winter often separate into three distinct groups: adult males (toms), young males (jakes), and females (hens) of all ages. Commercially raised turkeys cannot fly. They can run as fast as 20 miles per hour.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Owls and eagles and ducks and hummingbirds and parrots and woodpeckers are all things that a regular nonbirding joe or jane can, with time and a few color photographs, see the appeal of. a sea gull.''” Of course, that raises an important question – what is the most interesting gull in the world? And what about lifestyle?

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Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 231

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Let me introduce my guest blogger, Lisa Owens Viani, co-founder of the California-based group RATS ( Raptors Are The Solution ), which educates people about the dangers of rat poisons. Does the product above strike you as black humor, only not funny? I’ll leave today’s blog in her capable hands.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2016

One bird was flying towards us and, just prior to avoiding us, only slightly raised its head (showing us its yellow throat) before picking up an insect in mid-air. Finally, their colours – bright yellow, sky blue and chestnut red – were like watching Avatar in 3D!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Today is the United Nations World Wildlife Day, a time to celebrate and raise awareness of the living world around us. For a split-second I was considering the white morph of the Booted Eagle… while noticing that they do not have long stork necks and that they were… Egyptian Vultures ! Raising and lowering its head, like stretching.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

As if a nod to my quiet appreciation for the force of nature, a lone Bald Eagle opened great wings and sailed across the sound, heedless of the breeze trying to push it back. A few times the sand was thrown up at my uncovered legs, stinging, but I felt mostly awe at my surroundings. Waves crash along Navarre Beach Park.

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Puerto Rico Bald Eagle Birds Florida 103

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

And they were intrigued and they had questions, lots of questions, more questions than could be answered by a field guide or a social media group. Each spread consists of a full-page painting of a bird or group of birds on the left and a combination of text and illustrations on the right. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2014

When the land is flooded after rain it will move inland and breed at the ephemeral lakes and raise its young there. The Black-winged Stilt Himantopus himantopus is a large black and white shorebird that has distinctive long pink legs. It has a fine straight bill and is found in a variety of places around Broome. Juvenile Black-winged Stilt.

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Australia Raised Eagles Rights 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If you cannot find the nest or it’s too destroyed, do not try and raise a chick this young. It’s illegal to raise wild birds (even orphaned ones) without state and federal permits. Young raptors like the above Bald Eagle chick are a different matter. Never raise a wild goose or duckling yourself.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 266

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Hawk watchers and birders who look at hawks (not always the same group!) There are probably more identification guides about raptors than there are for any other bird group. If the accipiter swivels its head to look at a group of hawk watchers without moving its body, it’s a Cooper’s.

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North America Bald Eagle Birds Eagles 234

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2016

I’ve seen baby name lists that propose plenty of seemingly random nouns, but I have to say that unless you want to be the parent of a series of paperback westerns, just slapping a label like Eagle or Teal on your bundle and calling it a day is unlikely to bring you long-term satisfaction.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

It confirms many of the once-radical notions put forward or refined by Shannon Hackett and her colleagues in 2008, and several since, and it proposes solutions to some of the most deeply unresolved questions about how major bird groups are related to each other. ( “Metaves” was purported to contain the groups in Jarvis et al.’s

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2016

For example, turbine blades can be lethal to raptors, particularly eagles. The result is often litigation, frequently lawsuits initiated by conservation groups. The conservation groups raised a number of arguments, but the court ruled against them and in favor of BLM in every instance.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 24, 2014

“We let a one-eyed Bald Eagle go after a year of battling state officials in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Indiana and Kentucky. Two years ago we got a call about an eagle hit by a car. When we arrived we looked and there was our one-eyed eagle, eating a raccoon that had been hit. That was 9 years ago.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Ohio Tulsa West Virginia 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

A lot of folks, including this very blog, are using this as an occasion to memorialize not just the Passenger Pigeon but the extinct birds of the Holocene as a group. And we did , for the Peregrine Falcon and Osprey , the Brown Pelican and Bald Eagle. Good, I say. Turns out, from what I could find, not particularly ceremonious.

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California Condor United States Guam Whales 205

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2013

The place was lousy with Swainson’s Hawks , and we may even have spotted a distant Golden Eagle. The specials for our dinner at The Slanted Porch in Fallon included dishes prepared from cows and lambs raised by local 4-H Club kids.). Wilson’s Phalaropes did their crazy spinning thing, to our collective amusement.

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Nevada Birds Barn Owls Cows 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2022

Eagle-eyed Pat spotted a Lesser Black-backed Gull in nonbreeding plumage and other birders that week noted a Thayer’s Gull (which we may have seen too–I mean, who expects Iceland Gull in April?). ” Meanwhile, a birder from Ohio was leading a small group down a nearby trail, looking down–“Hooded!

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 225

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Britain’s Birds is organized in a very loose taxonomic order, with priority given to grouping together birds that are perceived as similar. Browsing is facilitated by section titles at the top of each left-hand page and smaller group titles on the upper right-hand page. plus a chapter on “Vagrant landbirds from North America.”

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. This image (by Marius Coetzee) shows Adam Riley & David Hoddinott with a group in Nsuta Forest, a forest reserve that is in the process of being clear-felled and settled by subsistence farmers. And wow, what a trip we had!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2017

Species Accounts are arranged taxonomically, grouped by family. A special box shows the differences amongst hawk and eagle copulation sounds. The Index lists all sounds displayed in the Species Accounts, grouping similar sounds together. Woodpeckers, appropriately, get a whole page on drumming and tapping.

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North America America Birds New York 178

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

If you remember that the first edition of Sibley was published with “National Audubon Society” on the cover, raise your hand. Color-coded page headings denote bird groups, matched by color-coded bird silhouette icons located midway down the edge of the page. I didn’t.). This is a fairly large book: 907 pages; 7.38

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North America America Birds California Condor 279

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Many robins, eagles and finches later, he ended up at university studying various biology things and wrote a thesis on vertebrate biogeography in southern African forests. Dale Forbes Mar 16th, 2011 at 7:48 am @Corey, Is there also a Daisy involved in this Group Marriage? to have and raise children. Any reason?

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2011 Breeders Breeding Deer 221

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

qn Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China Runner-up: The Bald Eagle that swooped around over the Big Gay Race in Minneapolis in October, which I didn’t get a picture of. On Seymour Island, my group witnessed a very human-like interaction amongst three boobies , one female and two males.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

In Cantebury, where there are moa there might be Haast’s Eagles. Our main targets will be the big three, three genera endemic to the group; the massive flightless Hawkins’ Rail , the smaller and odder Hutton’s Rail (perhaps related to the Snipe-rail), and the enigmatic Chatham Duck.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Sundevall named Wahlberg’s Eagle and Wahlberg’s Honeyguide in his memory. Woodward’s Barbet belongs to a group of barbets known as Green Barbets. In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590. Delegorgue’s Pigeon was discovered in the Berea area of Durban by French adventurer Adulphe Delegorgue.

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Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 195

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. AND you can use lead shot, which will impact any scavenger like a bald eagle that happens to feed on the carcass you leave. You don’t even have to have a duck stamp!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

Palm Warblers in Central Park Answers to A Diabolical Quick Quiz Cow Birds About the Author Jochen Jochen Roeder was born in Germany and raised to be a birder. And yes, Renato is the only one allowed to throw a couple of completely unknown and bizarre, unrealistically colourful bird groups into the mix. They’re Back!

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